Teaching physics during the 17th century: some examples from the works of Evangelista Torricelli
Abstract
This paper is proposing some physics problems from a book, De Motu Gravium Naturaliter Descendentium, written by Evangelista Torricelli, with the aim of showing how physics was taught in a university, that of Pisa, in the 17th century.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- July 2013
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.1307.4942
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1307.4942
- Bibcode:
- 2013arXiv1307.4942S
- Keywords:
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- Physics - History and Philosophy of Physics
- E-Print:
- De Motu Gravium Naturaliter Descendentium is available in Opera geometrica, a Google eBook, available at http://archive.org/details/operageometrica00torrgoog (new layout of paper after some emendations)